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President Tinubu presents a N54.4 trillion 2026 budget amid calls to resolve underperformance and lack of transparency in the 2025 budget, experts urge comprehensive reforms.
- Today, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presents the 2026 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly at 2:00 pm, framing it as a Budget of consolidation and renewed resilience.
- Following poor 2024 capital execution, the National Assembly approved a rollover into 2025, while President Bola Ahmed Tinubu asked the legislature to consider a N43.56 trillion Appropriation Bill.
- As at Q3 2025, official data show fiscal implementation shortfalls with ₦18.6 trillion revenue recorded and only ₦3.10 trillion—about 17.7% of the 2025 capital budget—released.
- Tinubu ordered the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy to ensure the 2026 Budget's strict implementation, linking targets to evaluations and digitising revenue to seal leakages.
- The 2026 budget is set at N77 trillion under the MTEF, with expected revenue ₦34.33 trillion and projected expenditure ₦58.18 trillion including ₦15.52 trillion for debt service.
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Tinubu’s 2026 budget speech (Full Text)
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday presented the 2026 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly, proposing a total budget of N58.46 trillion, with non-debt recurrent expenditure estimated at N15.25 trillion. In his address, the President fixed capital expenditure at N26.08 trillion and set the crude oil price benchmark for the fiscal year at US$64.85 per barrel. Here is a full text of the President’s speech and a breakdown of…
New Budget As 2025 Appropriation Act Lags
As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presents the 2026 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly today, questions are still being raised over the level of the implementation of the 2025 budget. Checks at the Budget Office of the Federation indicated that no record of the 2025 budget performance; raising questions about accountability and transparency as stipulated in the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA). The Director-General of the Budget Office of t…
Tinubu Declares Total War On Bandits, Waste And Poverty In Bold 2026 Budget
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday, December 19, 2025, declared intensified war on banditry, fiscal waste and poverty as he presented the 2026 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the national assembly, outlining a budget he said would move Nigeria “from survival to growth.” The President said the 2026 budget, titled “Budget of Consolidation, Renewed Resilience and Shared Prosperity”, represents “a defining moment in our national journey …
National Assembly Assures Thorough Review of 2026 Budget Proposal - TV360 Nigeria
Nigeria’s National Assembly has pledged rigorous scrutiny of the 2026 Appropriation Bill, emphasizing lessons learned from challenges in implementing the 2025 budget to guide lawmakers’ review of the new fiscal proposal. The commitment was made by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, during a joint sitting of the National Assembly in Abuja, where President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented the 2026 budget estimates. Abbas highlight…
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